Business At A Glance

Business Overview

Do your family and friends tell you that youbake the best cookies in town? If so, putting your cookie bakingtalents to work for you has the potential to make you rich. Massproducing specialty or gourmet cookies is a very easy business to putinto action. Simply rent or secure commercial kitchen space, perfectthe cookie baking process, design interesting packaging for thecookies, and you’re in business and ready to start profiting. Specialtycookies can be sold to food retailers on a wholesale basis, or directlyto the public via a cookie sales kiosk located in a mall or publicmarket. Also, for the truly enterprising entrepreneur, vending machinescan be purchased and installed in high-traffic areas throughout thecommunity to sell the cookies. Once established, the profit potentialcould prove to be outstanding for the creative and clever cookie maker.

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Hot Dog Cart Business Opportunity

Business At A Glance

Business: Hot Dog Cart

Start-up Costs: R2 000 – R10 000

Part Time: Can be operated part-time

Online Operation? No

Business Overview

The biggest challenge to overcome in terms of starting a hot dog vending business is to secure a vendor’s permit in your local community. However, even if you can’t get one, you can still operate a hot dog cart on privately-owned property and cater to functions such as flea markets, auctions, sporting events and fairs.

Currently, new hot dog vending carts are retailing in the range of R4 000 to R8 000 each, depending on the features. However, as a method to reduce start-up costs, consider purchasing a secondhand hot dog cart – they’re typically half the cost of a new one.

Grocery Delivery Service Business Opportunity

Business At A Glance

Business: Grocery Delivery Service

Start-up Costs: Minimum

Home Based: Can be operated from home.

Part Time: Can be operated part-time.

Online Operation? Yes

Business Overview

You have a few options available in terms of starting a grocery delivery service. The first is to simply contract with local grocery stores to deliver customer orders for a fee. The grocery store would bill the customer, market the service and manage the deliveries.

You simply deliver the groceries. The second and more lucrative option is to establish a buying account with a grocery wholesaler and resell groceries to your customers at a profit.

Cotton Candy

Business At A Glance

Cotton Candy

Startup Costs: $10,000 – $50,000Home Based: Can be operated from home.Part Time: Can be operated part-time.Online Operation? No

Business Overview

Equipment needed to make cotton candy can bepurchased secondhand for as little as $2,000, and starting a part-timebusiness that makes and sells cotton candy is a great little businessfor enterprising entrepreneurs to tackle. In addition to the cottoncandy making equipment, a small trailer converted into a booth forsales will also be required to get the business up and rolling. Oncethe trailer has been outfitted with the equipment, supplies andadvertising signs, there are numerous locations to set up at in everycommunity. Excellent locations include flea markets, sporting events,public markets, fairs, beach locations, parks, community events andparades. A cotton candy sales cart, trailer or kiosk can be operated onweekends only and still generate sales of $1,000 per day.